Monthly Archives: March 1997
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — March 27, 1997
c. 1997 Religion News Service U.S. bishops protest detention of priests in Mexico (RNS) Two U.S. Roman Catholic bishops have protested the arrest and detention of two Mexican priests earlier this month, calling the incident indicative of a “pattern of official behavior that could well be described as religious persecution.” In letters to Mexican Ambassador […]
NEWS STORY: Constitutional amendment on religious freedom urged
By Adelle M. Banks — March 25, 1997
c. 1997 Religion News Service WASHINGTON _ Rep. Ernest Istook, R-Okla., announced plans Monday (March 24) to introduce a newly worded amendment to the Constitution he says will protect religious expression in public places, including the nation’s public schools. Istook’s proposed amendment, supported by a consortium of conservative groups including the Christian Coalition, is the […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — March 25, 1997
c. 1997 Religion News Service Public schools approve clergy broadcasts (RNS) Public school officials in Gary, Ind., have agreed to sell air time on a city high school radio station to a group of ministers who want to broadcast religious programs on the weekends. The station airs news, educational and musical programming during the week, […]
NEWS STORY: Israeli law would restrict Christian missionaries
By RNS Blog Editor — March 25, 1997
c. 1997 Religion News Service JERUSALEM _ A legislative attempt to severely regulate missionary activity in Israel has evangelical Christian groups on both sides of the Atlantic working hard to block the bill, which they say could severely impact their ability to function in the Jewish state. As currently written, the bill would prohibit”the possession, […]
NEWS FEATURE: Churches played key role in bringing Guatemala peace accord
By RNS Blog Editor — March 25, 1997
c. 1997 Religion News Service WASHINGTON _ Guatemalan rebels are scheduled to begin turning in their weapons Monday (March 24), bringing the unique peacemaking process that helped end the fighting in Central America’s last and longest civil war to a new phase officials and observers hope will bring a lasting peace. As _ and if […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — March 22, 1997
c. 1997 Religion News Service Vatican official calls Buddhism”erotic spirituality” (RNS) The chief custodian of Roman Catholic doctrine has ridiculed the rising appeal of Buddhist practices among Christians, saying the church must do all it can to combat the challenge. Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, prefect of the Vatican’s Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, said […]
COMMENTARY: March Madness is just that
By RNS Blog Editor — March 22, 1997
c. 1997 Religion News Service (Andrew M. Greeley is a Roman Catholic priest, best-selling novelist and a sociologist at the University of Chicago National Opinion Research Center. Check out his home page at http://www.agreeley.com or contact him via e-mail at agreel(at)aol.com.) UNDATED _ This March college basketball madness should stop. It is a caricature of […]
NEWS STORY: North, South Korean church leaders issue public call for peace
By RNS Blog Editor — March 22, 1997
c. 1997 Religion News Service NEW YORK _ In a rare public agreement, church leaders from North and South Korea have urged their respective governments to”cease hostile policies”and have called on the United States to lift economic sanctions against North Korea. The agreement came during a three-day consultation here hosted by the National Council of […]
NEWS FEATURE: Ex-prison chaplain writes of life among felons
By Karen Long — March 22, 1997
c. 1997 Religion News Service UNDATED _ The Rev. George R. Castillo left a comfortable pulpit in Shaker Heights, Ohio, to bring hope to felons _ men the rest of society hopes never to see again. The former pastor of East View United Church of Christ resigned nearly a quarter century ago to become a […]
NEWS STORY: Supreme Court won’t change panel that sparked Muslim protest
By Ira Rifkin — March 21, 1997
c. 1997 Religion News Service WASHINGTON _ Supreme Court Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist has rejected a request from American Muslim groups to remove an image of the Prophet Muhammad from a marble frieze in the court’s chamber. Some 16 Muslim organizations had asked for the depiction to be removed from the 64-year-old frieze, a […]
COMMENTARY: Cloning debate demands response from all, not just”experts”
By Autumn Miles — March 20, 1997
c. 1997 Religion News Service (Rebekah Miles is assistant professor of Christian ethics in the Brite Divinity School at Texas Christian University in Fort Worth, Texas. E-mail her at r.miles(AT)tcu.edu.) UNDATED _ Imagine you can clone humans and other animals. Would you clone a cow that gives more milk? What about birds nearing extinction? Would […]
EASTER FEATURE: Devotion, scholarship collide along the Via Dolorosa
By Ira Rifkin — March 20, 1997
c. 1997 Religion News Service UNDATED _ Once again this Good Friday (March 28), Jerusalem’s Via Dolorosa will swell with thousands of Christian pilgrims piously retracing the path tradition says Jesus took as he bore the cross on his way to crucifixion at Calvary. Moving in small groups divided by nationality and language, the pilgrims […]
RNS Daily Digest
By RNS Blog Editor — March 19, 1997
c. 1997 Religion News Service Appeals court rejects Cooke’s appeal (RNS) A federal appeals court has turned down former Episcopal Church treasurer Ellen F. Cooke’s appeal of her five-year sentence on charges stemming from the embezzlement of $2.2 million from the denomination. Cooke’s lawyers had asked the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, […]
NEWS STORY: Jewish leaders lend support to campaign against Christian persecution
By Kim Lawton — March 19, 1997
c. 1997 Religion News Service WASHINGTON _ Putting aside sometimes deep religious differences, leaders of several influential Jewish advocacy groups Tuesday (March 18) added their voices to the growing grassroots campaign on behalf of persecuted Christians around the world.”Jews have a special feeling based on our own experience,”said Warren Eisenberg, director of the International Council […]
COMMENTARY: So much said, so little heard
By Tom Ehrich — March 13, 1997
c. 1997 Religion News Service (Tom Ehrich is an Episcopal priest in Winston-Salem, N.C., an author and former Wall Street Journal reporter. E-mail him at journey(at)interpath.com.) UNDATED _ At first, it was Bill Gates’ prediction that caught my eye. The next big technological thrust, said the software king, will be voice-recognition computers turning spoken words […]
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